Place gastrostomy tube perc at Arroyo Grande Hospital
1400 E Church St, Santa Maria, CA · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1760510937
$1,903.32
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$4,447.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$920.70 with Partnership Health Plan vs $9,715.00 with BCBS - Anthem — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|> 21 | $920.70 | ↓ -52% |
| Partnership Health Plan | Medicaid|< 21 | $920.70 | ↓ -52% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|> 21 | $920.70 | ↓ -52% |
| CenCal | Medicaid|< 21 | $920.70 | ↓ -52% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|< 21 | $1,392.93 | ↓ -27% |
| Health Net | Medicaid|> 21 | $1,392.93 | ↓ -27% |
| Western Growers | Commercial|All Plans | $1,641.20 | ↓ -14% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|All Plans | $1,879.92 | ↓ -1% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $2,410.32 | ↑ +27% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $2,410.32 | ↑ +27% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $2,410.32 | ↑ +27% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $2,410.32 | ↑ +27% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Medicare|All Plans | $2,410.32 | ↑ +27% |
| Alignment | Medicare|All Plans | $2,410.32 | ↑ +27% |
| Scan Health Plan | Medicare|All Plans | $2,410.32 | ↑ +27% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $2,506.56 | ↑ +32% |
| United | Commercial|Non-Options PPO | $2,625.92 | ↑ +38% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,655.76 | ↑ +40% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|All Plans | $2,745.28 | ↑ +44% |
| United | Commercial|Options PPO | $2,775.12 | ↑ +46% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $2,924.32 | ↑ +54% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $2,954.16 | ↑ +55% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|Exchange | $6,004.00 | ↑ +215% |
| Aetna | Commercial|HMO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +260% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $6,857.00 | ↑ +260% |
| Aetna | Commercial|PPO | $6,857.00 | ↑ +260% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|Non-MCS | $7,250.00 | ↑ +281% |
| Health Net | Commercial|Care Product | $7,451.00 | ↑ +291% |
| Health Net | Commercial|FFS | $8,439.00 | ↑ +343% |
| Blue Shield CA | Commercial|FFS | $8,719.00 | ↑ +358% |
| BCBS - Anthem | Commercial|MCS | $9,715.00 | ↑ +410% |
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| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| St. John's Camarillo Hospital | Camarillo | $1,365.69 | $841.86 – $4,371.40 |
| Petaluma Valley Hospital | Petaluma | $3,526.14 | $2,570.00 – $4,657.00 |
| Mark Twain Medical Center | San Andreas | $5,317.35 | $903.39 – $3,422.16 |
| French Hospital | San Luis Obispo | $1,778.12 | $781.65 – $2,837.10 |
| Mercy Hospitals – Bakersfield | Bakersfield | $1,572.30 | $920.70 – $3,390.40 |
| Bakersfield Memorial Hospital | Bakersfield | $1,555.35 | $920.70 – $3,348.02 |
| Queen of The Valley Medical Center | Napa | $3,920.37 | $2,724.58 – $9,858.00 |
| Providence St Joseph Hospital Eureka | Eureka | $3,943.83 | $2,468.04 – $9,858.00 |